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LeftishBrit

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Mon Jul 4, 2016, 06:38 AM Jul 2016

Britain’s Completely Batshit Week Since Brexit, Explained For Americans (Luke Bailey, Buzzfeed)

Hi America! While you’re all eagerly awaiting a divisive, bitter national vote in November, we just had one! As you might have heard, just over a week ago Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union in a referendum...

Also, pretty much immediately the people who had campaigned for Britain to leave the EU started admitting that the promises they’d made in the campaign weren’t actually promises....


So, to recap again: the economy is on fire, the prime minister’s resigning, nobody bothered to make a plan for how to leave the EU, everybody wants someone else to take charge, and the UK might split up entirely...


To recap: one old university friend pushed the country to a constitutional and economic crisis to gain power from another old university friend, but got stabbed in the back by a third old university friend, at which point he decided not to bother after all.


(Much more at link - all rather hilarious if it wasn't actually happening!!!!)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/the-crisis-explained-maybe?utm_term=.ot5m8gnNB#.okaMn1jWY

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Britain’s Completely Batshit Week Since Brexit, Explained For Americans (Luke Bailey, Buzzfeed) (Original Post) LeftishBrit Jul 2016 OP
Ah, those old school ties. merrily Jul 2016 #1
MacBeth updated. whistler162 Jul 2016 #2
K&R nt flying rabbit Jul 2016 #3
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